> Problem #2: The primary use for single-user mode is to run fsck because
> Something Bad Happened (TM) to a disk.  You need the device nodes for
> that.  You don't want to be forced to mount your root partition R/W to
> generate the device nodes to fsck the possibly corrupted root partition
> because your root partition might be corrupt and changing it is not a safe
> operation.

One could build a stand alone fsck.  :-(

Lately the main reason I've had for booting single-user is to edit the
fstab.  Let's see... what is the kernel calling this disk today?  :-/

-Dave